and was committed with a blatant disregard for human life, which made it more appropriate to impose a death sentence rather than a life sentence on Kho. On 20 May 2016, more than 8 years after Cao Ruyin's murder, 32-year-old Kho Jabing was hanged in the gallows after a final reunion and farewell with his family from Sarawak. Kovan Double Murders Tay presided over the trial of the Kovan Double Murders, which a police officer, Senior Staff Sergeant Iskandar bin Rahmat, murdered father and son, Tan Boon Sin and Tan Chee Heong, at Kovan in 2013 On 4 December 2015, Justice Tay Yong Kwang sentenced Iskandar to death after founding him guilty of the double murder charges. He rejected Iskandar's claims of self-defence and that the killings was a result of a robbery gone wrong, because the injuries on the victims were inflicted on vital parts of the body and the force used were too excessive for self-defence etc., which clearly shown that Iskandar has intended to cause death and silence the victims upon the discovery of his monstrous acts. The elder Tan suffered from a has a completely degenerated cartilage at his right knee, which made him having difficulty to walk or getting up from a sitting position. This also shown that, as what the prosecution argued, the elder victim could not have possibly be able to charge at Iskandar. Also Tan Chee Heong was around 30 kg lighter than Iskandar (even though he was 4 cm taller than the 173-cm-tall Iskandar), so the younger victim was not really physically threatening to him. After the loss of his appeal in 2017 and clemency plea in 2019, Iskandar remains on death row since, and his execution date has yet to be decided as of May 2021. References External links Supreme Court of Singapore website Singaporean Judges of Appeal Singaporean people of Chinese descent National University of Singapore alumni Living people 1956 births